the count

the count
   death
   Boxing imagery. The long count, though rarer, shows greater knowledge of the sport. To put out for the count, again from boxing, is to make unconscious rather than to kill. To count the daisies is to be dead, the sums being done from the roots upwards, it would seem.

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